Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23025, Asa Fairbanks, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Fairbanks, Asa Hepzibah
W 23025
B.L. Wt. 15416-160-55
Mass.
CONTENTS

4267 Mrs. Hannah Con Hepsibah Fairbanks widow of Asa Fairbanks who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 25 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of March 1849 and sent to Stephen P. Steele Peterborough N.H.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 71 Vol. 1

5465 Fairbanks Kopribah Asa Declaration
✓ 5465 Kopribah Fairbanks widow of Asa N. 76. Act 7 July 1838

Declaration. —
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 - Entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" —
State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss. —
On this seventh day of May A.D. 1839 personally appeared before me Fredrick Vose Esq. Judge of Probate in and for said County of Cheshire, in open court, Rebecca Hainbanks a resident of Dublin in said County, aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" — That she is the widow of Asa Hainbanks who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and served as follows viz. —
1. In 1780. Six months in Captain Kings company in Col Bradfords Regiment, Mass line — Continental service — and served a portion of the time at West point N. York
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2.
In other periods of the war she thinks before the above service at one time in guarding military stores at Sherburne Mass - at another at Rhode Island - employed while in this service a part of the time in ferrying from Boston to Greenwich. - She does not know the length of either of these two last services and cannot state the officers names - and can obtain no proof - unless the Massachusetts Rolls will furnish it as among the services of soldiers of the war from the Town of Sherburne Mass. -
That her said husband went into all said services from the Town of Sherburne Mass. -
She further declares that she was married to said Asa Fairbanks on the twenty eighth day of April in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four. - That her husband said Asa Fairbanks died in the month of July eighteen hundred and nineteen. - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 - viz at the time above stated - that she has not since been married to any other person - That her maiden name was Hepridah Adams. -
Witness Ebenezer Fairbanks
Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year above written. -
Hepridah nee Fairbanks X Adams marks.
Before me, Frederick Wood, Judge of Probate

The name "Adams" in the signature aforesaid was erased & the name "Fairbanks" inserted in my presence, as a correction the name of the Declarant, who has made her mark as her signature being "Fairbanks" not "Adams". Frederick Rose Judge of Probate
Cheshire Y.
I Elijah Sanger Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Cheshire do hereby certify that Frederick Rose whose signature is affixed to the foregoing instrument is the Judge of the said Court of Probate for said County of Cheshire, and that his official signature aforesaid is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court of Probate this 21 st day of May A.D. 1839.
Elijah Sanger Regr.

126.020 . act March 8/55 May 9. 151-
Ephzibah Fairbanks widow of Asa Fairbanks
Private J. Bradford M. J. Line
446 Perpetuating War Rec Pension Act 1848
At 76 Feb 48-4269
Ad. 160 acs Feb 2/56
Dodge
Vol. F. 3. -
Charles Richardson Amherst New Hampshire

126.030
Hepsibah Fairbanks — Widow of — Asa Fairbanks —
Charles Richardson Attorney, Amherst N.H.

State of New Hampshire.
Secretary's Office, Concord,
April 30. 1855.
I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestations Charles Richardson was a Notary Public and Rufus Piper was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Cheshire in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written.
John G. Hadley Secretary of State.

State of New Hampshire } ss. COUNTY OF Hillsborough }
On this 22 nd day of March A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five , personally appeared before me, a Notary Public within and for the State aforesaid, Hephzibah Fairbanks aged 93 . years, a resident of Peterborough in the State of New Hampshire who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Asa Fairbanks deceased, who was a Revolutionary soldier and a pensioner under the act of that she is the widow of said Asa Fair- banks and a pensioner under the act of 1848 that she draws a pension to the present time and is still the widow of said Asa Fairbanks that she draws 25.55 per annum under the act of 1848 for service &c she would respectfully refer you to her application and the accom- panying papers on file in the pension office (for her pension) that she has never before applied for or received a bounty land warrant for this or any other act of Congress and for further proof of the death of Asa Fairbanks she also refers to the papers on file accompanying her application for a pension - as also to the annexed certificates and affidavits
She further states that she was married to the said Asa Fairbanks in Dublin N.H. on the 28 th day of April A. D. 1784 , by one Edward Sprague a Clergyman and that her name before said marriage was Hephzibah Adams ; that her said husband died at Dublin on the 26 th day of July A. D. 1819 , and that she is still a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "Act granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who were engaged in the Military service of the United States," passed March 3 d 1855 and that she prays that the certificate thereof may be sent for her, to Charles Richardson, Amherst, New Hampshire.
her Hephzibah Fairbanks Marks
Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year above written, — and I hereby certify that I have no interest in the result of this application.
Charles Richardson, Notary Public

STATE OF New Hampshire County of Cheshire Town of Dublin
(a) Asa Fairbanks and Hopzibah Adams Married April twenty-eighth, seventeen hundred eighty four
I CERTIFY that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows:— (b)
“ April 28. 1784. ”
Ebenezer Greenwood Town Clerk
I, Ebenezer Greenwood above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, county, and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Ebenezer Greenwood } Town Clerk of Dublin.
Subscribed and duly sworn to, before me, this 12 th day of April A. D. 1855.
Rufus Piper Justice of the Peace.
(a) Here fill in an exact transcript of the record, except, that, instead of copying the figures, the date must be written out in full. (b) Here give the date exactly as it is in the record.

STATE OF New Hampshire Town of Peterborough County of Hillsborough
Personally came Ebenezer residents of the Peterborough entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, s make her mark and that they have every reason to believe, from th resents herself to be; and that they deponents, aforesaid, and that they are disinterested.
I have been acquainted for more than Forty at Dublin N.H. yet from a family town of Dublin just lived together as he that the said Hephzibah the widow of Asa as before stated on a learn from the before mentioned statistics and had several children
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 22 nd day of March 1855.
Chas. Richardson Notary public Justice of the Peace
Dublin April 12. 1855.
C. Richardson Esq.
Dear Sir
I have filled out your blanks so far as I have the means. Asa Fairbanks death was not put on the town Records.
It is recorded in the History of Dublin; and I suppose it was taken from the family record.
It is recorded there as follows
Asa Fairbanks born March 4. 1762. Married Hephzibah Adams April 25. 1784. died July 26. 1819.
A true copy
Attest Ebenezer Greenwood town Clerk.
Ebenezer Fairbanks Eleanor & Fairbanks

STATE OF New Hampshire Town of Peterborough County of Hillsborough
Personally came Ebenezer Fairbanks & Eleanor H. Fairbanks residents of the Peterborough aforesaid persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, say, that they were present and saw Hephzibah Fairbanks make her mark and acknowledge the foregoing declaration; and they further swear that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of the applicant, that she is the identical person she rep- resents herself to be; and that they deponents, do reside in the Town of Peterborough aforesaid, and that they are disinterested. they further depose that they have been acquainted with Asa & Hephzibah Fairbanks for more than Forty years that the said Asa died at Dublin N.H. July 26th 1819 the record of which they get from a family record and the statistics of the town of Dublin just published they knew that they lived together as husband and wife until his decease that the said Hephzibah Fairbanks still remains the widow of Asa Fairbanks, that they were married as before stated on the 28th day of April 1784 as they learn from the before mentioned statistics of the town of Dublin and had several children
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 22 nd day of March 1855. Chas. Richardson Notary Public Justice of the Peace
Ebenezer Fairbanks Eleanor H. Fairbanks

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
✓
File No. 25.1125
Keepsitah Fairbanks Widow of Asa Fairbanks Dis' Rev War
Act Feb 2d 48
Index : Vol A , Page 228
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hepsibah Fairbanks Wid of Ira NH
At July 7 1838
Maria 1784
died 1829
Allaw 7 mo 20
dr. $ 25.55 per
ann. Mass. Militia
(Capt Woodward)
Mr.
Ebenezer Fairbanks
Peterborough
NH

126530
FREE
Hon. J. P. Noble
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.

Commission of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

✓ 15 A 16
J. West Camp

5658
New Hampshire
Hepzibah Fairbanks widow of Asa Fairbanks
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the — July 1809 of Cheshire Co in the State of N. Hampshire who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Woodward of the regt. commanded by ————— in the Mass. Militia line for 7 months & 20 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord, N. Hampshire at the rate of 25 Dollars 55 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of July 1840 and sent to Mr. Ebenezer Fairbanks, Peterborough, N.H.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 102.20 Semi-annual allowance ending 1 st Sept. 12.77
$ 114.97
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by D Brown Book A. Vol. 1.
Clerk Page 40

N.H. V 5465
Hepzibah Fairbanks, widow of Asa - N.H. July 1838
Let to Eben Fairbanks 29 July 1839

✓ 3693 New Hampshire
Kezibah Fairbanks widow of Asa Fairbanks who was a private in the Mass t Militia
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 25 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Decem r 1843 and sent to
E. Fairbanks Peterboro N.H.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book  A Vol.  1  Page  18

Declaration of Hepsibah Fairbanks
10/11/99 3693
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. }
County of Hillsborough ss. }
ON THIS Thirty First day of August 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Hepsibah Fairbanks a resident of Peterborough in the County of Hillsborough aged Eighty Six years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War: That she is the Widow of Asa Fairbanks who was a private in the Army of the Revolution. That she was a pensioner and received under the Act of the 17th of June 1844 at the rate of twenty five dollars & fifty five cents per annum
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Attest Ebenezer Fairbanks  Hepsibah X Fairbanks her mark Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written—Before
Stephen D. Steele Justice of the Peace.
I FURTHER CERTIFY, That the above Declarant is personally known to me.
Stephen D. Steele Justice of the Peace.
State of New-Hampshire.
Hillsborough COUNTY, SS.
I, Riley Dodge Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Stephen D. Steele is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the twentieth day of May 1844 and will expire on the Nineteenth day of May 1849 and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the seal of said County, this fifth day of September 1848
Riley Dodge CLERK.

3071
Herpbah Fairbanks
N.H.
25.53
E. Fairbanks Deerboro N.H.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d. March 1943 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7 1938.
State of New Hampshire Hillsboro County Ss.
On this fifth day of July A.D. 1943 personally appeared before me John Scott a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Hillsboro and State aforesaid, Mrs. Rebecca Fairbanks a widow now dwelling in Peterboro in said County, (formerly a resident of Dublin in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire) aged Eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of a provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d. March 1943. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of Asa Fairbanks, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and served as follows viz. In 1779 two months or more in guarding Military Stores in Sherburne Mass. under the command of Samuel Woodward

Who was Capt. or Lieut. and commanding over guard and stores in said Sherburne Mass. In 1740 five months and two days in Capt. Kings company in Col. Bralfords Regiment Mass. line Continental service and served a por- tion of the time at West Point New-York. That her husband went into all said services from the town of Sherburne Mass. She further declares that she was married to said Asa Fairbanks on the twenty eighth day of April in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-four that her husband said Asa Fairbanks died in the month of July eighteen hundred and nineteen, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of Jan. 1794 viz. at the time above stated - that she has not since been married to any other person that her maiden name was Hepzibah Starns. The annual amount which she received under the act of July 7 th 1838 was not far from twentyfive dollars. (Witness Ebenezer Fairbanks) Hepzibah for Fairbanks mark State of New Hampshire Hillsboro' ss. I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the Widow Hepzibah Fairbanks That she is the identical person who drew a pension under the law of July 7 th 1838 Sworn to and subscribed on the John Scott Justice Peace day and year above written. Before me John Scott Justice Peace

State of New-Hampshire.
Office of Secretary of State.
I, Thomas L. Treadwell Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John Scott is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Hillsborough duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the Thirteenth day of June 1840 and will expire on the Thirteenth day of June — 1845 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this second — day of August — 1843
Thomas P. Seward Secretary of State.

I Eli Titchell of Bethel, Oxford County in the State of Maine, being eighty one years of age, do testify and say that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, in the fall of the year, Asa Fairbanks, then a resident in Sherburne, Massachusetts, served two months, as a private, in guarding continental military stores deposited and kept in said town of Sherburne. that he belonged to a party of soldiers, which was under the command of a man, whom we called  certain Samuel Woodward, but what commission he held I cannot say. And why I know that the said Fairbanks performed the said service is because that I was in the same service with him during the above mentioned period.
Eli Titchell
State of Maine } Oxford County } ss.
Be it known, that before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in & for said County on the twenty first day of March 1840. personally appeared Eli Titchell above named, whom I certify to be a credible person, and made oath in due form of law that the above affidavit by his subscribed is true.
William Frye, Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine Oxford County, ss.
I Joseph G. Cole Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford hereby certify that William Frye whose name is subscribed to the within certificate is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub- scribed my name and affixed the seal of the Western District Court this seventeenth day of June A. D. 1840.
Joseph G. Cole Clerk as aforesaid.

5465
May 27
NA
7 July 1838
Richard May 27 1838
Rebecca Fancher
Mid: of
St. M.
J. C. Edwards
Commonwealth of Indiana Washington City.
Agree

5465
27. Peterboro, N.H. May 22. (1858)
July 22 1887
22 Hopziah Fancher
Q120: 97
See
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City.

Peterborough N.H. May 22 d 1839
Dr Sir
Inclosed you will find the Declaration of Elizabeth Fairbanks & Depositions to substantiate her claims to a pension under act of July 1838. Further proof may perhaps be found in the records of your department.
Please to write me the result and direct to "Elizabeth Fairbanks, Peterborough New Hampshire"
Yrs respectfully
Elizabeth Fairbanks
Wm J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington City

Peterboro N.H.
July 11. 1857 to the Hon. J. L. Edwards Hepzibah Newbry
Penn
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

July 11. 1860 Fort Mon. J. L.
WA and part Hopiak Kaubak
Edwards
Brus
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. E.

Peterboro N. H. July 7 th 1940
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, You will recollect that about one year ago I sent you papers containing a declaration and claims to a pension of Mrs. Kepzibah Fairbanks a widow of Dublin N. H. It being for service which her husband Asa Fairbanks performed in the revolutionary war, also other papers to prove said service in the year 1780 Marraige, Death &c. You wrote back to me that you had the rolls of the six months men from Sherburne Mass. that Asa Fairbanks served only five months and two days. I have of late been able to prove two months service more performed in the year of 1779 in guarding Military stores in Sherburne Mass his native town which trilemmas you will find enclosed in this letter (probably this is not the whole time) There was yet another service performed by him as I well recollect of hearing him say he served three summer seasons in the revolutionary war, and hearing him relate many stories (30 years ago) respecting serving as a ferryman from Tiverton to Greenwich where the army crossed the river

In one instance a sturgeon jumped into the boat when empty which he carried ashore and sold for a gallon of rum, at another time having orders to carry a load by night a violent storm arose and being very dark they were driven to an Island where they were two days & two nights without food or the means of making a fire to dry themselves there boats being dashed to pieces on the rocks. I mention those circumstances in hope that you will search the Massachusetts rolls containing names of soldiers from Sherburn Mass. who served in the revolutionary war and see if Ezra Fairbanks name cannot be found as having done service a part of some other year in the revolutionary war Please to give these papers a fair examination and write the result to Ebenezer Fairbanks of Peterboro N. H.
Ebenezer Fairbanks

Drps. of Joseph Damer

I Joseph Dowe of Sherburne in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, depose and say, That in the year 1780, I enlisted into the Continental Army for six months, joined the Army at West Point, was in the Company commanded by Capt. King and in Col. Bradford's Regiment was one of the guard that brought Major Andre to Headquarters for trial. Asa Fairbanks then of said Sherburne was enlisted at the same time with me, served in the same Company and was in the same mess with me. I served my time out and came home in company with several other Soldiers from Sherburne, of whom I think said Asa Fairbanks was one. I was acquainted with said Fairbanks after he removed to Dublin in the State of New Hampshire, where I understood he died. I am now in the eightieth year of my age - Further, your deponent saith not.
Joseph Dowe
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. March 18 th 1839. Then the above named Joseph Dowe personally appeared before me, and made oath, that the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I further certify, that I have long been personally acquainted with the said Deacon Joseph Dowe, and that he is a credible witness.
Dalton Goulding, Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex County ss.
I Isaac Pitkin, Registrar of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid hereby certify that Dalton Goulding Esquire is a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, & that his signature above written is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate this twenty second day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine,
Isaac Pitkin Reg.

This certifies that under the head of "marriages" in the records of the first Congregational Church in Dublin New Hampshire, County of Cheshire, there is the following record, "Asa Fairbanks to Heprubah Adams, April twenty eighth one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, which is a true copy from the records with the exception of the date, which, in the record, is expressed in plain legible figures, as follows, April 28 1784.
Levi W. Leonard
Pastor of the first Congregational Church & Society in Dublin N. H.
I, Levi W. Leonard, do hereby depose and say that the above is a true copy from the records of the first Congregational church in Dublin New Hampshire, county of Cheshire, with the exception above specified. Levi W. Leonard.
Pastor of the first Congregational Church & Society in Dublin N. H.
Cheshire ss On the 6 th day of May A.D. 1839 personally came Levi W. Leonard above named and made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed, is true.
before me
Joseph Appleton Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss I Elijah Sawyer Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Cheshire aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph Appleton Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Cheshire aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified & that his above & foregoing signatures are his genuine signatures.
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court of Probate this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty nine
Elijah Sawyer Reg.

I Rufus Piper of Dublin in the County of Cushing and State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say: That I was for many years well acquainted with Issa Fairbanks of Dublin aforesaid. That I always understood that he was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. and I further say that he died at Dub- lin in the month of July A.D. 1819.
That he left a widow. Elizabeth Fairbanks who still survives and remains his widow.
Cushing ss.
Rufus Piper
May 6. 1839. Subscribed and sworn to before me
Joseph Appleton Justice of the Peace

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
City.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions Sir, I wish you to give those papers a fair hearing & send the result to Ebenezer Fairbanks
Peterboro' N.H.
Aug. 5 - 1843